Authored by: Suri Wang Art by: Carla Hu "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and most inhuman because it often results in physical death." — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1966) While healthcare is seen as a benevolent and nonjudgemental field, health professionals often exhibit implicit biases (unconscious biases based on perceptions and stereotypes) against patients that are part of marginalized groups based on race, economic status, and ge

Authored by: Sumedha Shastry Art by: Joshua Choi Giving birth takes an immense toll on a woman’s life. Not only does it require a significant amount of time to properly prepare for the baby, but it also takes a toll on her body. With all the check-up appointments, pre-birth classes, post-birth lactation consultations, and other such appointments, the mother-to-be must essentially put her life on hold for nine months in preparation for the day that the baby comes. After the st

Authored by: Sophie Erb-Watson Art by: Ava Shi One of the most durable legacies of the COVID-19 pandemic is the acceleration of healthcare workforce burnout and attrition. While many pandemic-era reforms targeted access or delivery modalities, the collapse of workforce stability has emerged as a pressing structural threat. In the United States, burnout, early retirement, and declining labor force participation among healthcare workers surged during and after the pandemic, wor

Authored by: Sophie Elijovich Art by: Jane Wang “I was told that I was experiencing psychosomatic pain stemming from guilt for sinning with boys,” [1]. Those were the words of Melanie, a woman who spent ten years in excruciating pain before finally being diagnosed with endometriosis that her new surgeon “said was one of the worst cases of endometriosis in a young person she had ever seen” [1]. Another victim, Truzane, who was eventually diagnosed with microvascular heart dise